New from Washington Post Investigations: We wanted to understand why youth crime shot up so stunningly in D.C. in 2023. Today, we published a multi-part investigation into the city's failure to both prevent and address the epidemic. Each part threaded here. Thank you for reading! 1/x

This was a huge team effort, and it was inspiring to see The Washington Post dedicate its resources to an important local story. We will continue to tell it. If you have anything to share about D.C. youth crime or the city's handling of it, reach us here: thewashingtonpost.formstack.com/forms/dcyouthc…

thinking of starting a gimmick account that documents the capitol’s various liminal spaces

USA TODAY reporters called Social Security's 1-800 line multiple times over several days and found the wait times to be consistently over an hour. Multiple times they did not reach a live person before the line disconnected with no warning. usatoday.com/story/news/pol…

NEW story: Kristi Noem secretly took a cut of political donations and then failed to disclose it

Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push ow.ly/YqIm106fgBg

When newspapers are still owned locally >

In 2016, Florida’s Big Cypress became the nation’s first “dark sky” preserve, a key designation to help endangered nocturnal species But the leading group that classified the park now says artificial light from Alligator Alcatraz “directly threatens” that tampabay.com/news/environme…

According to a new report detailing "severe shortages" in local news, the number of journalists working in the US has dropped by more than 75% since the start of the century — from 40 journalists for every 100,000 residents to just 8.2 journalists now. muckrack.com/research/local…

"Stunningly, more than 1,000 counties — one out of three — do not have the equivalent of even one full-time local journalist," Rebuild Local News and Muck Rack found. "And the ‘better off’ parts of the country are in lousy shape, too."

My colleague Aaron Parsley and his family were swept away in their home by the Guadalupe River. His harrowing story and their loss are described in one of the most important pieces Texas Monthly has ever published. texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…

Hundreds of immigrants with no criminal charges have ended up at Alligator Alcatraz, a detention facility that officials have characterized as where “vicious” and “deranged psychopaths” are sent. MUST-READ by ⁦Ana Ceballos⁩ ⁦Miami Herald⁩ tampabay.com/news/florida/2…

👍Executive Order 14303 on “Gold Standard Science” takes aim at FOIA's "withhold it cuz you want to" Exemption 5. If only FOIA departments followed this advice for ALL FOIA requests!

NEW FOIA Files SCOOP: The FBI redacted Trump’s name—and the names of other prominent public figures—from the Epstein files under two privacy exemptions before DOJ & FBI concluded “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.” bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

From Jason Leopold — the longtime head of FOIA at the FBI was ousted over how he handled the Epstein files bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Elon Musk has called the cops on some of his neighbors in West Lake Hills, TX. So I asked for all police calls made from that address from the last few years. The sheriff wouldn't give me the records, and, two days, ago the Texas Attorney General agreed they could be kept secret. #FOIA #TPIA

Rep. Darrell Issa of Calif. & Rep. Rob Wittman of Virginia voted to reduce the CFPB’s budget.Yet each has referred more than 100 constituents to the consumer agency for help, among the most of any House members. / by ⁦Joel Jacobs⁩ propublica.org/article/cfpb-b…

New from Dave Levinthal Rep. Rob Bresnahan, a multimillionaire who represents one of PA's poorest districts in Congress, appears to have taken steps to hide one whirling aspect of his wealth: his new personal helicopter notus.org/congress/rob-b…

Chris Collins texted me out of the blue a few weeks ago and then agreed to meet with me. He had a lot to say — about the insider trading case that derailed his career and his political comeback. buffalonews.com/news/local/art…

At Dulles, Iberia flight crew over intercom explaining delay to Madrid-DC passengers waiting to deplane: “They have a very abnormal system to take passengers to the terminal.”